Tell me again why we should believe Al Gore

I'm tired of reading the vitriol, so I don't want to read any further than this. But if you're driving 2 1/2 hours each way to work, you must really hate the planet. Of course, it also means you probably shouldn't be casting stones at Al Gore. Or anyone else for that matter.

 

Just 10 years ago, Gore told the Democratic National Convention that after his sister Nancy's needless death in 1984 from lung cancer, he committed himself "heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking." In his new film, Gore again dredges up his sister's death and how it led his once tobacco-growing family to turn away from tobacco.

After the DNC speech, reporters with memories intervened. America learned that contrary to his rhetoric, in 1988 Gore campaigned as a tobacco farmer who told his brethren that "all of my life," I hoed it, chopped it, shredded it, "put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it." The year his sister died, Gore helped the industry by fighting efforts to put the words "death" and "addiction" on cigarette-warning labels

 

Here is what the experts say at National Geographic have to say:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060531-hurricanes_2.html


the 2006 hurricane season follows predictions, it will continue a trend of stormy summers that started in 1995.
Meteorologists think hurricane seasons follow cycles of alternating active and less active seasons. The cycles can last as long as 40 years and are thought to be caused by fluctuations in the surface temperatures of oceans.

"If the atmosphere and the ocean behave as they have in the past, we should have a very active season, but that doesn't necessarily translate into storms that produce as much destruction as last year," Gray said.
If the 2006 hurricane season is active, it will doubtless continue to fuel the debate among some meteorologists about whether global warming is affecting hurricanes.

Some researchers say the Earth's temperature is increasing, which is causing more intense hurricanes to form.

But Gray, who has been making long-range forecasts for more than 20 years, does not think this is having any measurable effect on hurricane formation.

"Nature is causing these things," Gray said. "It's not human-induced global warming."

 

Uh, Boom, most scientists believe global warming has little to do with the FORMATION of hurricanes and everything to do with HOW STRONG THEY GET.

 

OK, I'm back and I have the perfect solution to the Global Warming debate both for persons on the right and persons on the left.

The solution is this: Have the UN put forth a resolution on Global Warming.

How is that a solution?

Well, when the UN puts forth a resolution, they never enforce it.

How is that a solution?

Well, like the many resolutions the UN put out on Iraq, the left thinks the UN resoltions are enough and the left prefers they not be enforced (see the US finally enforcing them by removing Saddam and the left going appoplectic).

And if they're not enforced, that will be just fine with the folks on the right who know Global Warming is actually bullshit.

There. Problem solved.

 

The line at the Brain Store was too long so you decided to go back later?

 

ot, what about us centrist Libertarians? How do you propose solving the problem of global warming for us?

 

Are those the same folks who believe the earth was created 5,000 years ago? Those ones?

 

And just like all the folks on the right who used to cite carefully-selected academia as proof that nicotine isn't addictive and cigarette smoke doesn't cause cancer? Yeah, what bullshit that was.

Enjoy it while it lasts, righties, because this "debate" over global warming is going to go the way of the "debate" over the effects of tobacco that wasted everyone's time and insulted everyone's intelligence in the 1980s and '90s.

 

Fortunately, upper-level wind shear has been very strong this summer. And this wind shear has been dismantling the storm systems very effectively.

But we're still a few weeks away from the peak period of the season . . . and we're more than two months away from the anniversary of Wilma.

I'll hold off celebrating until at least Halloween.